<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Another +1 for Bacula. When I worked on campus a few years back, I setup a configuration that used Bacula to backup a few servers to tapes. Worked really well, in my opinion.<br><br>
For smaller stuff, CrashPlan offers their utility to use for free (backup of unlimited computers to one computer, and then if you wanted to pay for their off-site usage, you can push all of that as well. It's what I currently use at home with my family. RAID-5 on my server and then everything's off-site as well in case of severe hardware failure or a fire)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Erik Mitchell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:erik.mitchell@gmail.com" target="_blank">erik.mitchell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi everyone,<br>
I am working on some end of year projects for my business and one of<br>
those is to get a backup server going that will connect to all of my<br>
various machines and perform regular backups.<br>
<br>
The last time I've looked into this "rsnapshot" was one of the more<br>
nifty and free as in speech solutions. I'm thinking I'll build a box<br>
with three 1-2TB drives, in a RAID5 configuration, and have that<br>
connect to my various machines using a "backup" account. Each machine<br>
will get backed up to my backup server, and then in the future I'll<br>
also get an offsite machine set up to sync with my backup server.<br>
<br>
I'm not an expert in this, and I'm guessing a lot of folks on the list<br>
might have some better ideas. I'd like to stick with "free as in<br>
speech" solutions, and also do the storage on real hardware that I own<br>
-- no cloud solutions. If anyone has any suggestions please share!<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Erik<br>
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Erik K. Mitchell<br>
<a href="mailto:erik.mitchell@gmail.com">erik.mitchell@gmail.com</a><br>
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